One of the events most crucial to the war in the Persian Gulf occurred
nearly ten years before it began, when Israel destroyed Iraq's most
advanced weapon, the nuclear reactor at Al-Tuweitha, acting on
information obtained by Israeli intelligence. Israel's Secret Wars is
the first documented, comprehensive history of all three of Israel's
intelligence services, from their origins in the 1930s, through Israel's
five wars, up to the present, including the Ostrovsky affair. Highly
readable and exhaustively researched, it contains the most accurate
information available about a shadowy and controversial subject in which
myth all too often obscures reality.
Using heretofore undisclosed contemporary reports, memoranda, and
private diaries, Israel's Secret Wars describes for the first time in
print the beginnings of the Israeli-U.S. intelligence relationship; the
Israeli-French espionage connection during the Algerian War, which
underlay their military alliance in the Suez crisis; the fateful message
from a high-level Arab agent that initiated the Yom Kippur war; and many
more previously unexamined operations and episodes.
Placing every event in its historical context, Black and Morris
disentangle the often stormy links between spymasters and politicians in
such affairs as the Entebbe raid, Irangate, the Pollard spy scandal, and
the Palestinian intifada. Israel's Secret Wars promises to become the
standard work on Israeli intelligence for years to come.
